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Subject: The end of UB40?
Written By: whistledog on 01/27/08 at 10:43 pm
For many fans of UB40, it might just be ...
Ali Campbell decides to quit UB40 to focus on his solo career
It's always a gamble when bands continue on with new vocalists. It worked for Ultravox and Van Halen, but I don't know if it will work with UB40. I grew up listening to UB40 and they are still my all-time favourite band so this news is very sad to me. No one else can fill Ali's shoes
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: Paul on 01/29/08 at 3:25 pm
Good band, but they've just been treading water for the last 25 years!
I can't see Ali's 'career' lasting long...he's hardly a huge draw on his own!
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/29/08 at 3:27 pm
Say it is not so?
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: whistledog on 01/29/08 at 9:26 pm
I can't see Ali's 'career' lasting long...he's hardly a huge draw on his own!
He had a moderately successful solo album in 1995 that produced a very catchy number called 'That Look in Your Eye', but I don't see him taking his solo career to full lengths. Without UB40, he's just that voice that sang those UB40 songs lol
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 01/30/08 at 12:16 am
It didn't really work for Ultravox or Van Halen. I mean, those post-Midge Ultravox records didn't sell and Sammy Halen was just an embarrassment!
:-[
Anyway, you could have told me UB40 broke up 10 years ago and I wouldn't have blinked.
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: Red Ant on 01/30/08 at 12:39 am
I didn't realize they were still together.
UB40? No, IB32!
Ant
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: whistledog on 01/30/08 at 11:50 am
It didn't really work for Ultravox or Van Halen. I mean, those post-Midge Ultravox records didn't sell and Sammy Halen was just an embarrassment!
:-[
Anyway, you could have told me UB40 broke up 10 years ago and I wouldn't have blinked.
Embarassment or not (he was an embarrasment though yes lol), when Sammy joined Halen, they had their first #1 album on Billlboard and ended up with 3 back to back #1 albums
In their native UK, Foxx Vox had no hits but Ure Vox had over a dozen
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: Philip Eno on 01/31/08 at 4:40 am
So that band will be unemployed all over again?
Subject: Re: The end of UB40?
Written By: whistledog on 01/31/08 at 11:40 am
So that band will be unemployed all over again?
;D